Gerry Cheevers

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The mask of Gerry Cheevers was a classic -- so much so, that it now has a spot in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Cheevers once took a puck in the face during practice, and then tried to cut out of practice because of it. As a joke, the trainer on hand drew stitches on Cheevers’ mask to show where he would have been hit in the face had he not been wearing a mask. The look caught, and from that point Cheevers kept adding stick marks to his plain white mask every time he was hit in the face with a puck.

Cheevers played with reckless abandon, so eventually the mask was filled up. It quickly became one of the most recognized in all of hockey.